Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees - 2007 - Huron City Schools

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Class Reunion News Hardly has one year wrapped up when talk turns to the next set of five-year class reunions. This next year marks the beginning of the second round of working with class officers to help organize and promote upcoming reunions. The past five years have been most gratifying, with upwards of seventy total reunions, not even counting the mid-Ohio Reunion held in June in Columbus or the highly successful All-School Reunion held just over a year ago. (Time for a repeat, anyone?) Of course, those of you who have been celebrating together for the past quarter century or more need very little assistance outside of updated address lists. The younger ones, though, still need a boost until some local class members learn and finally accept their roles as facilitators and realize they have been handed a life sentence by their classmates! Oh happy task! What greater satisfaction than helping bring together folks who have experienced so much in common in their formative years and providing them the opportunity to affirm their past and present through reuniting once again with their roots. We thank those who have undertaken the responsibilities and thus make our job easier. For those still learning, we are happy to assist any way we can. So we print here the line up as we head into a brand new year. Some class officers have already met, or soon will at their card parties and teas, to work out the details. For now we publish what has surfaced to date and the contact information in case you are reading this and need to start planning for the new year. We also encourage officers to book their needed facilities as early as possible, as at some peak times there may not be enough venues to satisfy all who want to gather. Riverfest time strikes us as a prime example and increasingly around the homecoming date is another. To aid in your planning we throw out a couple ideas here. First, we will probably be planning something big – not as big as the All-School Reunion, mind you – for around Homecoming Week to celebrate the 50th birthday of the high school building. Homecoming next year will be the weekend of October 9 – 12, a three-day weekend for many because of Columbus Day on Monday. The annual Banquet and Induction Ceremony for the Athletic Hall of Fame is always scheduled for Thursday evening that week. Then Friday is the ball game, against perennial powerhouse Perkins in ’08, and then after the game all the returning grads are invited out to Mulligan’s Pub for a victory celebration. That leaves plenty of time on Saturday and Sunday of that weekend for individual class gatherings. We once again encourage classes to scan their lists to see if someone deserving from their class has been omitted from the Hall of Fame. It is a great thing for the class, the inductees and their families to see so many classmates attend the banquet in support of their induction. Second, the idea of area-wide reunions is catching on. The Columbus group wants to repeat, probably in June again, and we are also planning one for the Chicago area. The date and venue are still being worked out, but it will probably be held the weekend of March 15, close enough to be called a St. Paddy’s Day party, preferably in an Irish pub in Chicago itself. An invitation will be sent out to all in the area shortly after the first of the year. Anyone else who wants the information and would like to come out, email us and we will fill you in. Year Plans so far Contact person(s) 48 save Sept. 26 - 28 Teresa Johnson 433-3899 Fran Ringlein 433-4073 franncr@gmail.com 53 planning in progress Gladys Kovacs 433-4302 Jean Howard 433-2576 58 planning to start soon 63 planning in progress Sherry Enderle Mischler 419-433-4738 68 planning in progress John Caporini 433-2476 Cindy Hastings Defazio 433-6065 73 Homecoming weekend Carol Markin Scott scottcc8@yahoo.com or 419-433-6136 78 Riverfest Weekend Joan Saunders joansaun322@aol.co Kim Samstag Kim.Samstag@fmcti.com 83 dinner, golfing, fam. picnic Paul Ward pward_64@yahoo.com details on the way 88 no word yet 93 no word yet 98 Survey coming soon send contact information to Julie Hughes and Eric McGraw at the address of HHS.Class_of_98@Yahoo.com 03 Any takers yet? Email us and we’ll help get you started!
Reunions A Go-Go Columbus During this past winter and spring, a group of grads in the Columbus area met and staged the first ever area-wide reunion sponsored by your Association. The event was a huge success, requiring much planning and a Herculean effort to turn out the troops. This summer the event will be repeated and planning will begin shortly after the first of the year. Everyone within the Central Ohio area will receive an invitation. (If you are from that area and fear we may not have your email, please contact us.) However, we also know that some grads outside of the area may be interested in attending. We intend to welcome all, but obviously wouldn’t know about your desire to attend. If you email us in early spring, we will fill you in on all the details, email you a secret map of the location, and be happy to welcome you come summertime. The more the merrier. Chicago We are now expanding the movement this spring, to the Chicago area this time. What a way to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day, a few days early, on Saturday, the 15 th of March! The location we have chosen, McGinny’s Tap in the Old Town neighborhood, has a Huron connection. Jen Ineson Cowin, ’92, a flight attendant, is married to the proprietor of the establishment, Jeremiah Cowin. Located on West North Avenue, just a few doors down and around the corner from Second City on Wells, the pub is a perfect venue for not only the city and the day but also for our group of grads. The area has seen a resurgence of investment in upscale refurbished housing and an influx of young people who give that entire area an élan and vitality long lacking in many metropolitan areas. (Cleveland, take heed!) The plan is to KISS, Keep It Simple, Sam. We would meet at the noon hour, thereby getting an early jump on the holiday afternoon and evening partygoers and have an uninterrupted visit without bothering the locals. (Besides, they’re mostly rabid Cubbie fans.) The Tap is known for its good bar food and burgers, so we’d just order from their menu without the bother of putting together a special fare. (Check them out at www.centerstage.net/bars/ mcginnys.html) And Jeremiah may even throw on a stew pot of beef and cabbage for the purists among you – though looking at the list of names of all these Ohio emigrants and Buckeye transplants, bratwurst and braunschweiger would probably be more apropos. The place is a neat sports bar, so those of you who can’t peel away from March Madness, you’ll see it all with the plasma screen wall paper they have hanging there. Also, if you hang around long enough, you can treat yourself that evening to a show at Second City, within a fiveminute walk of McGinny’s. Birthplace of the Belushi, Myers, Murray, and Radnor “Rat Pack,” the place features two rather intimate stages where troupes still perform original comedy revues. (Not as funny, though, as a Sticks and Cletes show done locally here whenever the two bump into each other.) Let’s see, now, if we do late lunch and an early show, can we still call it dinner theatre? So let us know what you think. Email us if you think you could be persuaded to attend. Also let us know if you know of any Huron grads in the Chicago area – we do have quite an extensive listing but could be short some names. We won’t be getting up a committee or anything, so you needn’t worry about be collared for a job if you contact us. We’d like to make this as successful as the Columbus affair turned out to be. With your help we can do it and maybe make it an annual affair. Go for it, group! The 1930’s Yep, you read that right, the 1930’s – from the Flappers to the Dustbowl to the Depression to the Big One, they saw it all before most of us were ever a glint in the old man’s eye. These Eveready Bunnies keep on going, but they are the complainingest bunch – not enough in any one class to throw a proper reunion, they grumble. So we’ll crowd them all under the same umbrella for a day and hold a ‘30’s reunion, Huron style. Quite a few of them have told us they would welcome such a gathering – heck, from ‘30 to ’39, they all know each other anyway. Ought to - back then, standing on the old west side and with a good tail wind, one could spit straight up and across town all at the same time. And we do have a goodly number of these octo- and nonagenarians right in this immediate area. Some have said they still drive, but in daylight hours only. So in deference to their wishes to be home before dark, we are planning a daytime gathering. We thought we’d start by gathering at the HYC for a luncheon, then visit for a while. Later on in the afternoon, after the kids have cleared out of the high school, we would go over there to meet with some of the students for a guided tour through the new facilities – all on the first floor, mind you. (There is elevator service for the more daring, though two at a time is about the limit. It is also ADA compliant.) We think folks will be amazed when they see a state-of-the-art science wing which in itself is half again as large as the old high school on Williams Street used to be. We are then planning a dinner at the school for all of the community’s seniors who wish to attend, and the ‘30’s bunch will be most welcome to remain for that. This used to be an annual affair enjoyed by all the senior citizens and we are trying to reinstitute the practice for them. Now we know that this could be a taxing day for many much younger folks, so we make it clear up front that folks are free to depart at any time. While we are not pressuring anyone to engage in any activity that would be too strenuous, we do think the noon luncheon and early afternoon events should be quite doable. Grads will be welcome to attend with guest/chauffeur/significant other. We will be sending out official invitation and reservation requests early in the spring, so look for them. Sign up early, round up a ride if you need one or contact us for help in that regard, and then get rested up for your big day. You are part of that Greatest Generation, and we’ll try to order the reddest carpet!
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